On May 7, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 01:05:07PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> Hi, >> A common pattern that I've seen at Isilon and something else that I've >> wanted to have for a while is the ability to designate where the top of a >> source tree was. This is important and helpful when dealing with source >> files that build upon each other or depend on sources located in other >> sections of the tree; contrib stuff needs to set .PATH appropriately to >> point to sources at the top of the tree, sys stuff is riddled with S= in >> order to point to where /sys, etc lives, we build upon FreeBSD within an >> expected directory structure as well. >> I haven't come up with a name, but was wondering if this was a good >> idea, and if so does anyone have any outstanding patches for this that can >> be pushed into FreeBSD? > > I'd like to see this. There's a variable for this in NetBSD and I've > wanted to do this because it makes code easier to relocate within the > tree.
This is another good reason. It would make porting code to/from NetBSD a LOT easier… especially because I plan on pulling a lot of test/test infrastructure code from NetBSD and I really don't want to commit too many local changes to the Makefiles. Less divergence -> better cross-pollination -> less work for all -> win for the BSDs. Thanks for the reminder.. I'll base it off what NetBSD did :). Thanks, -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-toolchain To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-toolchain-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"